Guyana News

Following the completion of a second trial, Kevin Mohan, known as ‘Chucky,’ was yesterday afternoon convicted of the 2016 murder of his aunt, Anita Mohan, whom police say he stabbed to death and then robbed.

A man was yesterday sentenced to 20 months behind bars after a court heard that he chopped his sister with a cutlass because she was going to report him to the police.

A jury yesterday afternoon acquitted Dexter McIntosh of raping a 12-year-old girl.

A Linden man has been charged with the murder of Eon Williams, called ‘OJ,’ who was shot and killed in 2019, while with his girlfriend at Lover’s Lane Amelia’s Ward, Linden.

Dr Richard Van West-Charles, a director of Atlantic Fuels Inc., was on Monday charged with furnishing a false or misleading invoice to the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA).

Accusing the judge who conducted his trial of committing a number of errors, Travis McDougall, who was sentenced in 2017 to 25 years for shooting and killing businessman Ashok Raghoo, is appealing his conviction and sentence.

Police are searching for two men who robbed a man of over $900,000 in valuables, including jewellery, during a robbery at Two Miles Good Fortuin, West Bank Demerara.

The regional administration of Region Six has estimated that over $75 million is needed to finance the necessary repairs to the region’s dams that were either damaged or destroyed by recent devastating flooding, which is still ongoing in some parts of the country.

Former Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Sir Lester Bryant Bird died yesterday.

The amendments to the Petroleum Act were yesterday passed by the National Assembly after a grueling five hours of debate during which the opposition questioned the urgency and recommended further consultation.

President Irfaan Ali has ordered that freight charges be reduced to pre-pandemic levels in order to lower taxes on imports, thereby relieving consumers of higher prices that have been passed on due to higher shipping costs.

Former Guyana Water Inc head Dr. Richard Van West Charles, a director of Atlantic Fuels Inc.,

Former Antigua Prime Minister Sir Lester Bryant Bird has passed away.

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT)  today announced in a press release that it will increase the basic salary for all employees for the year ending September 2021.

Eighteen million dollars in cash believed to be stolen during last week’s multi-million dollar robbery at gold trader Wallison Enterprise in Kitty was found buried in a West Bank Demerara back yard and two ranks of the Guyana Defence Force are currently in custody.

As places of business in the public and private sectors adopt and enforce the new requirement of showing proof of vaccination against COVID-19, Leader of the Opposition, Joseph Harmon, yesterday said he intends to request a Parliamentary discussion on “Mandatory Vaccination” during today’s sitting.

What started out as potholes have since developed into moon-like craters and when this newspaper visited the various communities within Parfaite Harmonie last week, it was observed that the poor state of the roads, beginning with the Access Road has now extended deep into the other communities.

Five patients from the National Psychiatric Hospital located at Fort Canje, Region Six, remain on the run following a fire believed to have been started by a patient at around 9:15pm on Saturday.

The death of 19-year-old Joel Skeete, the University of Guyana student, who was found dead on the foreshore of the West Bank Demerara days after going missing remains a mystery as numerous questions were left unanswered, something his family has to live with.

A driver along with another passenger are critical at the Suddie Public Hospital after the vehicle they were in collided with a tree at Cullen, Region Two.